The Catcher in the Rye takes place in New York around the 1950s.It's about a 17 year old kid names Holden who gets kicked out of Pencey because he is failing most of his classes. When he finds out that they are kicking him out during winter break; he decides to leave early and stay at a hotel. The whole time he is in New York City not worrying about the present, but about the past situations. During this time he calls an old girlfriend and they go see a show on Broadway. Then she goes home during dinner because he is making fun of her. He also talk to his sister and tells her what going on and after awhile they get interrupted when their parents come home so he leaves quickly. After he goes to an old teachers house from an old school he failed out of. He falls asleep there and when he wakes up the teacher is rubbing his forehead so he leaves. He also gets mixed up with a pimp and a prostitute. The book concludes with holden saying, " 'Don’t tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody'."(Salinger 214) This suggests that he is still faced with the same problems he has dealt with throughout the book. Why is it outstanding?
The Catcher in the Rye is an outstanding book. The book is a story about a old mans childhood. This book is written so you can see through the main characters point of view. By doing that you can understand what is going through a teenager's head well under stress. Holden continuously goes off on random tangents about his past or how he hates "phony" or "fake" people. Holden hates all "phony" or "fake" people. These rants are entertaining and let you understand what kind of person he is and how he deals with his issues. One quote that illustrates these rants is, " So what I did, I wrote about my brother Allie's baseball mitt. It was a very descriptive subject. It really was. My brother Allie had this left-handed fielders mitt. He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pockets and everywhere. In green Ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat. He's dead now" (Salinger 38). He was supposed to describe a room or a house but instead he describes a memory of his brother. Throughout the book Holden meets up with a prostitute and a pimp, and some old time Prep school friends. Holden's rants are what made this book fun and entertaining.
I recommend this book
I recommend this book because it is a good novel. It shows how young males think. It has a lot of swearing and talking about sex but all that stuff help us as the reader understand what exactly he is going through. This book could teach a lot of young kids some lessons and prevent them from doing what holden did.
Work Cited:
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company,1991.
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
By: J.D. Salinger
Summary
The Catcher in the Rye takes place in New York around the 1950s.It's about a 17 year old kid names Holden who gets kicked out of Pencey because he is failing most of his classes. When he finds out that they are kicking him out during winter break; he decides to leave early and stay at a hotel. The whole time he is in New York City not worrying about the present, but about the past situations. During this time he calls an old girlfriend and they go see a show on Broadway. Then she goes home during dinner because he is making fun of her. He also talk to his sister and tells her what going on and after awhile they get interrupted when their parents come home so he leaves quickly. After he goes to an old teachers house from an old school he failed out of. He falls asleep there and when he wakes up the teacher is rubbing his forehead so he leaves. He also gets mixed up with a pimp and a prostitute. The book concludes with holden saying, " 'Don’t tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody'."(Salinger 214) This suggests that he is still faced with the same problems he has dealt with throughout the book.
Why is it outstanding?
The Catcher in the Rye is an outstanding book. The book is a story about a old mans childhood. This book is written so you can see through the main characters point of view. By doing that you can understand what is going through a teenager's head well under stress. Holden continuously goes off on random tangents about his past or how he hates "phony" or "fake" people. Holden hates all "phony" or "fake" people. These rants are entertaining and let you understand what kind of person he is and how he deals with his issues. One quote that illustrates these rants is, " So what I did, I wrote about my brother Allie's baseball mitt. It was a very descriptive subject. It really was. My brother Allie had this left-handed fielders mitt. He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pockets and everywhere. In green Ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat. He's dead now" (Salinger 38). He was supposed to describe a room or a house but instead he describes a memory of his brother. Throughout the book Holden meets up with a prostitute and a pimp, and some old time Prep school friends. Holden's rants are what made this book fun and entertaining.
I recommend this book
I recommend this book because it is a good novel. It shows how young males think. It has a lot of swearing and talking about sex but all that stuff help us as the reader understand what exactly he is going through. This book could teach a lot of young kids some lessons and prevent them from doing what holden did.
Work Cited:
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company,1991.